Reinstalled the update, repaired permissions, restarted, put the left leg, the right leg out, the lot.

Still the same. Not a terrible problem but annoying.

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Okay... so now... short of doing the rest of the hokey pokey...

Mmmm, what do you have installed on your system, if anything, in terms of third party drivers, enhancements to the OS, modifications, tweaks, haxies, etc, or programs that are always or almost always running?

And one more question...you've been very detailed about the things that are not working. I want you to check one more: Use Exposé and / or summon the Dashboard. Do you see more dropped frames in the animation than you think you used to? If your Mac used to have the ripple effect (i.e. has a CoreImage graphics card), do you see it still? The reason I ask is that it's possible this has something to do with availability of video ram. Some of these effects get turned off when video ram gets very spare....

* dock won't un "auto hide" when the mouse is near it
* dock won't magnify
* other mouse tracking effects do not work, like when i click a menu to open it, the mouse will not highlight items on the menu as i move the mouse over it.
* applications load in the background, not the foreground

this seems to be a mouse or system problem, not a dock problem

i also have tried all of the fixes recommended here and in one other web forum, to no avail.

* dock won't un "auto hide" when the mouse is near it
* dock won't magnify
* other mouse tracking effects do not work, like when i click a menu to open it, the mouse will not highlight items on the menu as i move the mouse over it.
* applications load in the background, not the foreground

this seems to be a mouse or system problem, not a dock problem

i also have tried all of the fixes recommended here and in one other web forum, to no avail.

I just bought the newest version of the Macbook pro, the one that came out in April or something. I just got it two days ago and when I first started the laptop, the dock never magnified when I hovered my mouse over it. It still hasn't since, which I've restarted the laptop four times already for normal use. I don't understand why this feature isn't working. I havent installed anything yet. Did they just take it out?

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